The Vicarage
THE VICARAGE, CLAY CASTLE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056152
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- The Vicarage
- Statutory Address:
- THE VICARAGE, CLAY CASTLE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056152
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- The Vicarage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE VICARAGE, CLAY CASTLE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE VICARAGE, CLAY CASTLE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Haselbury Plucknett
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 47233 10737
Details
ST4710 HASELBURY PLUCKNETT CP CLAY CASTLE (South side)
10/24 The Vicarage 19.4.61
GV II Semi-detached house. Late C16, remodelled in C18 and C19. Ham stone ashlar and near-ashlar; plain clay tiled roof over stone slate base courses, with high stepped coped gables suggesting former thatch; brick end chimney stacks. Two storeys, 5 bays. Plinth, continuous string between floors. Hollow-chamfer mullioned windows in wave-mould recesses, all 2-light, mostly rectangular-leaded with iron-framed opening lights, except upper bay 3 of 3-lights; signs of blocked former window lower bay 4, and extra single light inserted left of bay 1. C19 projecting single-storey flat-roofed porch to bay 3, having open balustrading and ball finials to corners, a shoulder-arched doorway with boarded door, and small windows with triangular-ornamented heads on sides. Attached to east gable a 2-bay extension, set slightly lower, with hollow-chamfer aullioned windows of 2 and 4 lights above, rectangular-leaded with iron-framed opening lights: below a 3-light leaded casement with timber lintol to bay 1, and a 2-light mullioned window without label to bay 2, and between indications of a blocked doorway. Small leaded casement window in east gable. Interior not seen, but reported is a 9-bay beamed ceiling, and fragments of a second; collar-truss roof frame of late C18/early C19. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, January 1973).
Listing NGR: ST4723310737
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262273
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in January, (1973)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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